Dutch: Reports Appear to Confirm al-Qaida Role in Bomb Plot The Dutch interior ministry said ... an attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit, Gwen Ifill ...

In the past four years, Northwest Airlines has been plagued by accidents with its 36-passenger Martin 202s. During 1950, when three 2025 crashed (and a DC-4 plunged into Lake Michigan, killing 55 ...